The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday.
Christians overall remain a large majority in the U.S., at nearly 70 percent of Americans. However, white Christians, once predominant in the country's religious life, now comprise only 43 percent of the population, according to the Public Religion Research Institute, or PRRI, a polling organization based in Washington.
The survey also found that more than a third of all Republicans say they are white evangelicals, and nearly three-quarter identify as white Christians. By comparison, white Christians have become a minority in the Democratic Party, shrinking from 47 percent a decade ago, to 29 percent now. Forty percent of Democrats say they have no religious affiliation.
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9 comments:
We still Control this country > OUR Country > A Christian
Country !!!! And always will !!!! We ain't go'in away
Wonderful news.
Bull crap!!
Does that mean the government will pay for everything for us now? Do we get affirmative action?
12:30...I'm with you, agree 100%.
I'll take my handouts now. How do I sign up for section 8?
12:30 can't do math.
That was the plan,wasn't it?
It only takes one catastrophe to change all that.
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